An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5895-01-303-7353
NSN 5935-01-058-1484
NSN 6150-00-726-2870
NSN 6145-00-259-1622
NSN 6610-01-461-8180
NSN 6135-01-450-0948
NSN 5855-01-543-3338
NSN 5920-01-114-8248
NSN 5990-01-044-4767
NSN 5910-01-310-8935
NSN 5999-01-448-3039
NSN 4140-01-418-3017